
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Martin County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 21,802 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,316 | 100.0 | Native | 21,504 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 403 | 7.6 | Born in United States | 21,451 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 242 | 4.6 | State of residence | 16,501 | 75.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,629 | 49.5 | Different state | 4,950 | 22.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,550 | 29.2 | Born outside United States | 53 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 492 | 9.3 | Foreign born | 298 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 165 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 120 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 14,935 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 178 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,237 | 8.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,191 | 8.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,661 | 37.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 298 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,527 | 23.6 | Europe | 39 | 13.1 | |
| Associate degree | 916 | 6.1 | Asia | 112 | 37.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,815 | 12.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 588 | 3.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 130 | 43.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.7 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 5.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 20,659 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 17,536 | 100.0 | English only | 19,870 | 96.2 | |
| Never married | 3,574 | 20.4 | Language other than English | 789 | 3.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,673 | 60.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 308 | 1.5 | |
| Separated | 195 | 1.1 | Spanish | 420 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,676 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 208 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 1,431 | 8.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 280 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 1,418 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 43 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 808 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 73 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 50 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 21,802 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 86 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 25,921 | 118.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 23 | 26.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 233 | 1.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 650 | 3.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 16,345 | 100.0 | Dutch | 642 | 2.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,338 | 14.3 | English | 1,574 | 7.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 657 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 98 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 11,631 | 53.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,027 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 436 | 8.7 | Hungarian | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,244 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,767 | 8.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,709 | 15.2 | Italian | 93 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 63.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,535 | 84.8 | Norwegian | 3,195 | 14.7 | |
| Percent employed | 85.2 | (X) | Polish | 1,017 | 4.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,973 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,450 | 36.5 | Russian | 34 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 195 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 242 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 16 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 20,659 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,370 | 64.7 | Swedish | 1,760 | 8.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,222 | 35.0 | Swiss | 119 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 4,298 | 20.8 | Ukrainian | 38 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 2,924 | 14.2 | United States or American | 610 | 2.8 | |
| Same state | 1,795 | 8.7 | Welsh | 144 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 1,129 | 5.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 67 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 1,185 | 5.4 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| ¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

